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Excerpt from The Paragraph: A Musical Entertainment, in Two Acts; As It Is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Frank Here, look at my collar! That will ex plain what is the matter. - It's well my mother and Eliza were off again before this happened Three writs out against me at the same time three 'at once - something neat in that - eh, Jervis Egad, it was lucky my coat was town made the clumsy stout stiches of a country tayq lor would have dragged me to a spunging-house. A taylor of fashion knows' his man better knows how to put a coat on your back philoso phically, to suit the laws of motion, eh, Jervis? Hark! Surely the bailiffs are coming up stairs. My dear fellow, step and tell them that I have taken my leave - that \i am gone off in a balloon, shot myself with a finder-box, hang'd myself in the bell-rope; drown'd myself in the wash hand bason - any cong� you think the neatest, so that you do but get them out of the house.
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